Subject taken from the Acts of the Apostles (VII, 55-60). The scene in the scriptures is set in Jerusalem, represented here as a generic Roman city: in the background is the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, reproduced with some artistic license (for instance, there is no record of a chapel existing atop the monument) but nonetheless recognizable by its shape, the cladding of the drum, and the characteristic frieze.
Accession number: 1082
Oil on copper
4 x 53 cm
Poelenburgh, Cornelis van, also known as Bruxo, Satiro, (Utrecht, c. 1594 or 1595 – Utrecht, 1667). Dutch School
Location
Musée du Louvre
Credits
Musée du Louvre
Bibliography
Catalogue des peintures flamandes et hollandaises du Musée du Louvre, a cura di J. Foucart, Paris 2009, pp. 101, 201
